"And if you were elected President," Peabody Award-winning Brooke journalist inquires of the former Governor of Virginia, "would you have jurisdiction over Second Life?" At some point very soon, the fact that a serious reporter would half-seriously ask that question of a quite serious political figure will no longer seem quite so surreal. As will Governor Mark Warner's chuckling reply, in which he ponders the tension between "elected, embodied candidate", and the "virtual candidate". (At times, he muses, "they might have policy differences.")

The SL segments of the 9/22 episode begin at about 34 minutes in. Stream the episode here; download the episode here; subscribe to the "On the Media" podcast here.

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I find the whole Second Life phenomenon fascinating (and possibly a little disturbing). It's been getting news coverage everywhere lately; NPR's On the Media had a good story about it this weekend. They talked with Mark Warner, the first presidential [Read More]

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